The Alchemyst Chapter 15 Summary

How It All Goes Down

In a jarring jump back to the realities of the modern world, Sophie realizes she can't get a signal anywhere in Hekate's house.

Well, duh. Flamel tells them they're in the Yggdrasill, the World Tree. Of course you can't get a signal in Yggdrasill.

The house is made of all-natural materials and has no energy sockets because it would drain magical power. (Check out the description of the inside of the tree (15.11) and "Symbols" for more.)

Magic needs energy in order to work, Scatty explains, and so it takes energy whenever it can find it. She says that "if no other source of energy is available, it takes it from the life force of the magician who created it."

That is why every time the magician uses magic, he is weakened.

All right, now we want you get ready for your mind to be blown. Scatty is about to let us in on a little secret: